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Suppose I were to start as a Peelite?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various

The Peelite amendment in moderated terms, for which Palmerston stood sponsor, was then carried against the radicals by 468 to 53.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by Morley, John

The Cabinet, partly Whig and partly Peelite, was animated by no general principle.

From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon

The same evening, Lord John Russell wrote to Lord Aberdeen as follows:— 'I am told that the whole complexion of the Government will look too Peelite.

From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Laughton, John Knox

For a man who was once a Peelite and has never ceased to be a High Churchman to have gained supreme power in this country is a political miracle.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various